is virtual agreement that the author made use of the LXX version of Isaiah which would carry us at least to the end of the third century BCE (see NOTES on 2:12 and 15:10).28 Zeller, however, had already suggested that the address to the rulers of the four corners of the earth (6:1) referred to the period of Roman rule, and that the reference to the remoteness of the rulers’ dwelling in 14:17 indicated more specifically the age of Augustus.29 Although many commentators have interpreted Wisd 14:16–20